Getting Ready for STITCHERY SAMPLER SEW ALONG

We are so excited that the time for our STITCHERY SAMPLER SEW ALONG is almost here and we will be starting this Friday!

We are so excited to work on this quilt with you guys, one week at a time!!

THINGS TO DO TO BE READY

• CHOOSE YOUR FABRICS. If you are using the prepackaged kit in a box from MODA… yeah! Your fabrics have all been chosen for you. I will talk more about fabric placement and my hints and tips about that on Friday but for now you want to pick your palette. If you are using your own stash or a different group of collection, gather a good variety of colors. Since this quit is designed as a colorful sampler with a lot of simple blocks, I recommend a good variety of colors and different scale of prints for visual interest. Since we have already made the quilt shown here, for my second version of this I will be using a whole rainbow of FIG TREE QUILTS fabrics and I will show you my palette on Friday. I know at least several of you who are going to be making 2 versions at once.. one rainbow scrappy like the photos and one Christmas! I am SO EXCITED to see that!
• FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO STARCH, GET STARCHING. For the rest of us, simply press or lightly spray starch your fabric. Personally I like to lightly spray starch my fabric on my ironing board and press with a regular iron. No wet starching for me so I can’t really answer your questions about that although there is plenty of info out there about it.
• We will be working on ONE BLOCK each week so this should be a simple and easy to keep up with” program. We welcome all levels of quilters for this. On the weeks where we do applique or hexagons, feel free to skip it if that is not something you want to tackle and simply redo another favorite block instead.
• We will also be STITCHING ALONG with a complimentary/matching EMBROIDERY SAMPLER based on this quilt. More info on that tomorrow but I am BY NO MEANS a seasoned stitcher… in fact, I have barely ever stitched before so I will be trying out my hand at some stitches and following along in our group to see how some you might do. It will be my turn to try something new and scary! If you are interested in doing the stitch sampler with us, we will have a limited amount of EMBROIDERY STARTER KITS available.

SCHEDULE

WHEN: Each week starting on Friday January 8 and going for 13 weeks, WHAT: We will be working on one block per week per plus one week for the setting.

WHERE: We will be posting a video HERE each Friday to YouTube so if you would like to be ready for it, please subscribe HERE.

OTHER FUN THINGS: We will be having some GIVEAWAYS, special offers and more special announcements coming. We will be sewing together in our FACEBOOK GROUP. It is called FIG TREE QUILTS FRIENDS, click HERE to request to join.

See you Friday!